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<blockquote data-quote="binky" data-source="post: 529926" data-attributes="member: 490"><p>far from it, but I am suggesting those trading as a sparky, plumber or whatever else should be properly qualified and trained. A friend of mine runs a PA testing company, he put his employees through the electrical inspection and testing courses and now sends them out doing Electrical Inspections. He passed on some follow on work to me a while ago, half the things they had listed as faults were actually just older ways of doing things and not a problem at all. Learning from books is all right, but experience needed to test properly can only really be learnt from working with experienced tradespeople and actually installing electrical equipment. We see this issue a lot with newly qualified sparkies failing older systems because they don't comply with their training to today's regs. It's costing people money unnecessarily. </p><p></p><p>DiY is fine if everything is relatively up to date, and there's no real issue with changing a socket or the like, but the online resources do not show how to deal with older installations, and very few DiYers have test equipment to prove their work is good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="binky, post: 529926, member: 490"] far from it, but I am suggesting those trading as a sparky, plumber or whatever else should be properly qualified and trained. A friend of mine runs a PA testing company, he put his employees through the electrical inspection and testing courses and now sends them out doing Electrical Inspections. He passed on some follow on work to me a while ago, half the things they had listed as faults were actually just older ways of doing things and not a problem at all. Learning from books is all right, but experience needed to test properly can only really be learnt from working with experienced tradespeople and actually installing electrical equipment. We see this issue a lot with newly qualified sparkies failing older systems because they don't comply with their training to today's regs. It's costing people money unnecessarily. DiY is fine if everything is relatively up to date, and there's no real issue with changing a socket or the like, but the online resources do not show how to deal with older installations, and very few DiYers have test equipment to prove their work is good. [/QUOTE]
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